linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] scripts: Include postprocessing script for memory allocation tracing

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Message-ID: <20160919094224.GH10785@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:42:24 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Janani Ravichandran <janani.rvchndrn@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, riel@...riel.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, vdavydov@...tuozzo.com, vbabka@...e.cz,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] scripts: Include postprocessing script for memory
 allocation tracing

On Tue 13-09-16 14:04:49, Janani Ravichandran wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 12, 2016, at 8:16 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> 
> Hello Michal,
> 
> > I am sorry I didn't follow up on the previous submission.
> 
> That’s alright :)
> 
> > I find this
> > _really_ helpful. It is great that you could build on top of existing
> > tracepoints but one thing is not entirely clear to me. Without a begin
> > marker in __alloc_pages_nodemask we cannot really tell how long the
> > whole allocation took, which would be extremely useful. Or do you use
> > any graph tracer tricks to deduce that?
> 
> I’m using the function graph tracer to see how long __alloc_pages_nodemask()
> took.

How can you map the function graph tracer to a specif context? Let's say
I would like to know why a particular allocation took so long. Would
that be possible?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs